I've got one of those names

Evertime I met someone, call someone, or whenever I have to tell some my name it goes like this and has gone like this my whole life everytime:

"Hi my name is Rhett."
"Red?"
"No, Rhett."
"Rat?"
"No, Rhett."
"Oh, Brett."
"No, Rhett.'
"Reat?"
"RHETT!"
"Oh like Rhett Butler! Did you mom name you after Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind?"
"She told me no, but my brother told me yes."
Then comes the question all women ask me. "Have you found you Scarlet?"
Thanks a lot mom! Not only have you scared me with a name that is hard to pronounce but you eternally linked me to character in a movie whose true love is a selfish spoiled bitch. I was doomed from birth to never have a succeful relationship becuase of the charma behind my name. I feel like that Jonny Cash song about the man named Sue. Trust me for all those future parents please do your children a favor and not name them after charcters in a movie.

NFL Draft

The NFL draft is my favorite time of year. There is nothing more exciting than teams building their Super Bowl one pick at a time. Most people who get to know me think I go a little over board with the Draft. My old roommate Rob told his parents, " It’s not just that he spends all day watching the draft, but he writes down every pick and does three mock drafts before it starts. Then he does it all over again on Sunday." Ok, I understand some people just don’t get it, but I like to watch the second day more than the first because I am weird. No sane person writes down all seven round picks for each team especially when they are printed in the newspaper the next day, but I like doing it so call me insane. I just hope the saints don’t take another defensive lineman like they have been doing. Can someone please tell the Saints that there are prospects beside those who went to Ohio State or Georgia. I will be extremely happy if we get Linebacker from Texas, Derrick Johnson. So if you are ver in need of an update of the picks, trust me I will have them because there is nowhere else I am going to be except watching the Draft. I can hear the crowd now," J-E-T-S" "And the Jets pick for the first round…Darryl Blackstock LB from the University of Miami." " Who?" " Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."

Idon't understand Smoke Laval

Wow, unbelievable. Tulane is the better team and should have won, but come on Laval earn your paycheck. Seriously my blind grandma would have taken out the starter earlier in the third, and would have played better relief pitchers. Yes I know, it is not a confence game and you need to save your pitchers for conference, but you are playing the 3rd team in the nation! This was the most anticipated game of the year and smoke starts his number 5 pitcher and brings in for relief players who play only when we are ahead by 20. Smoke, every year its the same thing, but I believe you are the coach to lead us and please do so. Next time you play a top rank team that will help you get a super regional home site play your best pitchers!!! LSU loses for the second time this year to Tulane 11-8. I hate losing, but I hate losing more to Tulane. It's like Boston losing to Yankees, Saints losing to Falcons, UNC losing to Duke, Notre Dame losing to Michigan in that losing is hard but losing to your rival pisses you off until the next game.

LSU vs Tulane

LSU vs Tulane is age old rivalry that was mostly one sided thoughout the years, but not one sided like Red Sox vs Yankees. LSU won 5 national championships in 91, 93, 96, 97, and 2000, andTulane has won none. The times have changed, and so has the road to Omaha. Tulane now ranked 3rd in national will host LSU ranked 2oth in nation. This is a different spot for LSU who has always ranked ahead of Tulane. The rivarly started heating up after Rick Jones took over the Tulane program, and implementing small ball. LSU, who made famous long ball, have struggled to teams over the past couple of years that play small ball. LSU didn't just change the way college baseball was played in the 90's but cause many stadiums to push back fences and regulate aluminum bats. This cause a decrease in homeruns and batting averages across the NCAA, and small ball started making a noise in late 90's into 2000's. LSU still recruits players of the same physic. Though they hired a coach that was an assitant for the former coach Berman, he still coached small ball as head coach before LSU. I don't know whether it was pressure from school, fans, or booster, but the former small ball coach keep long ball at LSU. Pitching has also become a great tool in college baseball and if you have two aces in college you can win it all. LSU has become a streakie team with hitting and their pitching goes out with hitting so the past two years in Omaha have been a 2 and out. Though this year LSU can not even think of Omaha because for the first time in a long time their run to Omaha may go through Tulane. LSU needs to win tonight and continue winning to bring hope of a home site for regionals and super regionals. Hopefully Tulane will continue to win and we will see LSU and Tulane both host Super Regionals. Tonight the world will see the best rivarly in college baseball and hopefully a preview of a match in Omaha. Small ball vs Long ball, Tulane vs LSU, #3 vs #20, lets get it on!

Crazy Night of Trivia

"Name four of the six characters killed at the end of godfather part1 by Michael?"

This was the final question of the night in trivia. We were currently in second place and wagered the max amount available for bet, 20 points. Getting it right would give us a great shot at winning.

Let me start at the beginning, I walked in for trivia a little later than usually, because unlike a usual trivia night I had my parents with me. Upon entering the bar and seeing my boss, Laura, I made my usual stop at the bar. The bartender knowing me because of how frequently I visit had my tab already going and my beer already open on the counter. I give an embarrassed smirk to my parents and respond, "She has a great memory." Laura gives me the forty dollar bar tab won from last time when we played and tells me, " let everyone buy off your bar tab so everyone is able to use the forty dollars." Not realizing how dangerous this can be, I agree.

See it wasn't a usual crowd out that night. I have been known to bring a friend or two plus we had the pleasure and help of two co-workers. Ashley, who has come before, brought her boyfriend Barry who last time run up a bill so high the owner asked him to become a part owner. Barry becomes relieve upon hearing me say, "put all drinks on my tab tonight." Remembering what Barry told me the last time he was at trivia while playing pool, "Bitch put pineapple in my drink!" I tell bartender, " make sure there is no pineapple in that screwdriver." Mikey gives me a weird look but at least I know Barry is happy. Later on everyone started to realize I was not the most reliable to order drinks because I get easily distracted. Kim are other co-worker was making her trivia night debut, and brought along a friend who got funnier as she became more comfortable us or more drunk; whatever, and evidently help us tremendously at the end of the game.

The questions were a lot harder this time than in the past, but we stayed near the top as usual. Laura is our key to the game because she gives the best educated guess. She knows more useless knowledge than anyone I have ever met. Even though she knows most answers she spends half her time at the bar checking with everyone to make sure they saw the answer. I am a politics and sports question kind of guy, but Laura always ask me if I know the answer to who wrote an 18th century essay defining the Middle east civilization. When she asks I always give the answer everyone else says, " That looks about right. I was thinking something else but that looks better." We do this so we do not sound completely moronic. When the answer is announced and it is different than response Laura gave we say, " Oh, I knew that! That was the other thing I was thinking of." I should know better to this point than to argue with Laura because I am always wrong and she is always right. " Laura, I am telling you this answer is 721 and not 1135 and I don't care what you telling me this is right and you are wrong!" Then the moderator says, " The answer is 1135."

Before the last question, your team has to make a wager and I am the worst at making wagers and Laura is some kind of a kung fu physic toward predicting the wager. In fact we call her the swami. Our arch rivals semicola always loses to us because of betting. Of course I stood up and said we should not bet it all, and of course Laura says we should. Once again Laura was right and by some miracle we named 4 out of 6 guys to be killed by Michael in the Godfather. We ended up winning, but if you ask Rob it was because he showed up. We are 4-0 when he comes to trivia. I still believe it because Laura luckily never listens to me of course unless it is a sports question. The night closed out as usual and I made my way to the bar to get my tab. Mikey gives me a look and I say, "What's the damage?" Rob turns to me and says, "dude, the screen is still scroll with drink orders!" As I say the rosary, Mikey gives me the bill, "sixty dollars, but taking out the forty dollars it is only twenty."
PRAISES JESUS!!!!!
Thank God Laura gave that forty dollars! Well until next time. Everyone is welcome to Friday night Trivia at the Chateaux Pub! I warn you though once you comes once you will want to come again.

Driving

Ok, first let dismiss the myth most men have about women drivers. Trust me when I say this most people are bad drivers. I have notice this every since I started driving. Everyone thinks they are a good driver, and the truth is once in a while we all makes stupid mistakes. I love when people say, "I hate people that drive while talking on the cell phone" and not five minutes later there phone rings and they start talking on the phone. Then you have people who personally believe the rules of the road do not pertain to them. Why do people have trouble understanding a four way stop sign? It’s not that hard people, who ever gets there first goes first and if you arrive at the same time the person to you left goes first. Some people take the stop sign, as a yield sign and other s don’t ever think STOP means anything.
Have you ever sat at a light when it turned green and had to wait for the cars still passing in front of you? Does a red light mean anything to these people? Do these people belong to some sort of secret society where they do not have to abide by the rules of the road? I want to join it! Why are they in such a hurry? Just leave earlier! Is getting to work or wherever they are going worth risking you life over by running a red light?
I toke a ride with a friend the other day, and while sitting in traffic he proceeds to tell me, " you know why there is traffic?" "Why is that?" " Because all these people are rubbernecking, and the accident is probable a finder bender." I realized, which is probably really bad that every time I pass an accident I evaluate whether the traffic was worth it. If I see a ten-car pill up I feel that the wait was worth it, but if I see a flat tire I am little disappointed. Of course I hope everyone is ok. Back to the story, my friend upon driving past the accident proceeds to slow down to evaluate the damage. The wait was defiantly not worth it. It was a finder bender between a rich as businessman worrying about his new BMW and poor college students who look like she had been eating ramen noodles every night just to survive. Seriously, its just a dent and I think with your salary you can afford to get it fixed instead of driving this poor college students insurance up. Finally getting through and driving freely now I turned to my friend and said, " definitely wasn’t worth the wait, but why did you slow down when passing?" He responded, " Wanted to see what all fuss was about!"

Star Wars Fans

Today I heard on the radio that a group of 25 people have started to wait out in line in front of the Chinnese Theatre in Los Angeles for the new Star Wars movie. Now to give you an idea April 7 is today and the movie comes out May 31. They are not put their in regular clothes either, they are decked out in Star Wars apparel with no shoes on. They have a pay phone by the line that radio shows have call to get these individuals on air. The funny thing is these individuals think they are celebrities but in return everyone is making fun of them. What would posses someone to wait out two months on a sidewalk for a 3 hour movies? Now, I know why George Lucas keeps making these movies even though it is hurting the originals, because these crazy people will pay anything to see these movies. Lucas is making a fortune off of these crazy bastards. Can someone please drive out to these people and explain to them that it is just a movie that you will be able to buy on DVD and keep forever. This not something you should risk health, sleep, and your job over. Now being a sports fanatic I must say that I too get a little overboard about my team, but I am not willing to sleep out for two months for a game ticket that I can see on television. The funniest thing about all this. The new Star Wars movie is not going to be shown at the theatre they are standing out in front of and they know this, but the original Star Wars movie made its mark at that theatre and they believe if they bring enough publicity to the theatre that they will show the movie their. The theatre down the street that is actually showing the movie has a total of zero people waitting in line. You do have to admire their commitment. No, nevermind they are just crazy!

Cell Phones

Ok people, enough with all the technology. I mean seriously do you really need to pop out 3 benjamins for a new phone. I mean your phone does the same thing as my Zack Moris bigger than my head cell phone. It calls people and you can recieve phone calls. Why do people need a camera on their phone, seriously what is so important that you need to show someone that you can just explain to them through a phone call. I walk out of class the other day and the first thing I notice was everyone taking on their cell phone. Now people even text message people during class. What is so important that you can't wait 50 minutes to tell someone? Why do people needs different rings? Let me save you money with this- THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME AND THEY PISS ME OFF. They are all annoying and nothing makes someone more upset than to have a converstaion interupted by your annoying ring tone. Let me ask you something, doesn't vibrate work the same as a ring? Ok, ok, I understand sometimes women can't hear the vibrate when it's in their purse, but do they have to have the ring volume on busting my ear drum with JLo's new crapy song. My happiest thought is throwing my cell phone in the lake or playing baseball with my cell phone. Cell phone were first introduced for emergency use. I haven't seen a person yet that has used their cell phone for an emergency, and I am not talking about my boyfriend just dumped because I am agrevating him with my cell phone, kind of emergency. Have you every seen someone who is with out their cell phone? They look like they have no clue where their life is going, and they are begging people around them to use their cell phones. I am done ranting and I will leave with just this. I HATE CELL PHONES!!!!

The Movie List

Do you ever catch yourself saying, "That is the best movie ever!" I have notice latly how many people actually say this on a regular basis. I mean I have caught myself saying it about two movies at the same time. So I thought I would compile the real best movies ever no order specific. This will not be like those critic filled bull compile becuase I completly disagree with their list. Some people will disagree with my list. Oh well it's my list! So here is my list of the greatest movies ever (no oreder remember):
Godfather Part 1 & 2, Rocky (all of them)(ok maybe not 5), Saving Private Ryan, Scareface, Braveheart, Hustler, Kelly's Heros, Victory, Dumb and Dumber, Good Will Hunting, Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Rudy, Few Good Men, The Sting, Oceans 11, Casino, Bloodsport, Predator, Alien, Shawshank Redemtion, Office Space, Mystic River, Gladiator, Seven, Fight Club, Super Toopers, Eternal Sunshine, Almost Famous, She's the One, Old School, ....

No do not think this is the whole list but part 1 of the list. I can not fit my own list plus I need more research from my list. I have seen too many movies to try to ramble off my favorites. My list is not too long because of the amount of movies that have come out. So until another day when I show you the other parts of the list.